Fall 2025 Meeting (Archive post)

While the meeting is in the past as of this posting, we're placing it here for longterm record keeping. I hope everyone that came out to the meeting enjoyed it.

Dates October 17-18, 2025

Location: ODWC Arcadia Conservation Education Area

Friday Schedule:

07:00 PM - 10:00 PM    Social, games, and other (bird-adjacent) activities

Saturday Schedule:

08:00 AM - 10:30 AM    Field Trip: Lake Hefner (Led by Joe Grzybowski, meet at Prairie Dog Point Parking Lot)

08:00 AM - 10:30 AM    Field Trip: Red Ridge (Led by Steve Stone, enter through Red Ridge gate on Lincoln)

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM    Red Ridge Tour (Exclusive tour led by ODWC Deputy Director)

12:00 PM - 01:30 PM    Lunch (on your own)

01:30 PM - 03:00 PM    OOS Board Meeting (all members welcome)

03:00 PM - 05:30 PM    Speakers

05:30 PM - 07:00 PM    Dinner

07:00 PM - 08:00 PM    Keynote Speaker

*All events except field trips and the Red Ridge Tour will take place at ODWC Arcadia Conservation Education Area.

Speaker Lineup

Lance Swearengin: Red Ridge and OOS Partnership

Zach Poland: First Record of Brewer’s Sparrow in Eastern OK

Manuel Lederer: Changes in Avian Abundance and Species Richness in South-Central OK

Cora McKinney: Documenting Prothonotary Warbler Parental Feeding Behaviors

Gloria Caddell: Native Oklahoma Plants

Dylan Cooper: Evaluating Orthopteran Prey Preference

Keynote: Kyle Atkins-Weltman: Ecology of the last Mesozoic Dinosaurs of the Western Interior

Pricing: Full Event: $30     Field Trips Only: $10     Student Full Event: $5​​

A block of rooms has been reserved for OOS Fall Meeting attendees at Hampton Inn and Suites Oklahoma City/Quail Springs. To book a room at the special rate, please use this link (https://www.hilton.com/en/attend-my-event/okcothx-oos-0c14acea-9d0e-448c-90e9-8ac27ae5eece/).